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WHY THEY ARE NOT PURE.

The absolute purity of the Royal Baking
Powder is a fact not questioned by any one;
but the questions are frequently asked: Why
do not other manufacturers, also, put up pure
baking powders, free from lime, alum, and
other adulterants? Is it a fact that the Royal
is the only pure baking powder nader
There are three classes of these articles:
Cream of tartar baking powders, made from
cream of tartar and bi-carbonate Of soda
phosphate baking powders, in which phos-
phatic acid is used as a substitute for cream
of tartar and alum baking powders, made
from burnt alum and soda.
Burnt alum baking powders are of the
cheapest class. They cost less than four cents
a pound, are concededly poisonous, and be-
cause of their we'll know inferiority are new
err sold under their true colors. Baking pow
ders sold with a prize or gift are of this class.
The phosphate baking powders contain
from 8 to y per cent. of lime, which is an
ingredient of the phosphate used in them as
a substitute for cream of tartar. 1t is impos-
sible to eradicate the lime from this class Of
powders. This baking powder is next to the
alum baking powders in cost.
The cream of tartar baking powders, to
which class the Royal belongs, to be pure must
be made from absolutely pure cream of tartar.
The Royal Baking Powder is made from
cream of tartar specially refined and prepared
for its use by patent processes by which the
~tartrate of lime is totally eliminated. There
is no other process by which cream Of tartar
can be freed from lime-made 100 per cent.
pure-in quantities practical for commercial
purposes. Other baking powder makers, not
being able to obtain these chemically pure
goods (Which are used exclusively in the
Royal are dependent upon the cream of tar
tar of the market, refined by the old-fashioned
methods, for their supply, and by those
methods it is impossible to eliminate the lime
and other impurities.
These are the reasons why the Royal IS
absolutely pure, while all other baking pow
ders contain either limo or alum.
The vital importance of absolute purity IN
the articles we cat as promotive OF perfect
health is daily more generally being consid-
cred. How large a share in producing i'm
pure and unwholesome food the lime and
alum baking powders have had in the past,
is becoming fully recognized.
The absolute purity of the Royal Baking
Powder not only renders it more perfectly
wholesome, but its freedom from all extra
neous substances makes it of higher strength
and effectiveness as a leavening agent, and
therefore, more economical for use. 1t is &C
c%ordingly certified by the United States Gov
ernment Chemists as the most wholesome, eff
fective and perfect baking powder made.
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THE GREATEST OF GREAT WALLS.

Says a correspondent of the Milling Wortd,
who has recently been travelling in China !:
Of course we had to 60 to the great wall OF
China. This country abounds in great
walls. Her mural defenses were most ex-
tensive-walled country, walled cities,
walled villages, walled palaces n tenn
ples-wall after wall and wall within wall.
But the greatest of all is the great wall OF
China, which crests the mountain range
and crosses the gorge from here some forty
miles away. Squeezing through the last
deep gorge and adeep rift in the solid rock
cut out by ages of rolling wheels n
tramping feet, we reach the great, froWn-
ing, double Fashioned gate of stone ana
hard burned brick-one arch-Way tumoled
in. This was the object of our MISSION,
the great wall of China, built two hundred
and thirteen years before our era built OF
great slabs of unheWn stone, lald IN regu,,
lar courses some twenty feet hlgh ana
then topped out with large, hard burned
bricks, filled in with earth and closely
paved on ton with more dark brick-the
ramparts high and thick and casteiiated
for the use of arms. Right and left the
great wall sprang far up the mountain
side-now straight, now curved, to meet
the mountain ridge, turreted each three
hundred feet-a frowning mass of mason
ry. No need to tell you of this wall the
books will tell you how'll was built to keep
the war-like Tartars out-tWenty-tve feet
high by forty-thick, twelve hundred miles
long, with room onstop for six horses to be
driven abreast. Nor need I tell you that
for fourteen hundred years it kept those
hordes at bay, nor that, in the main, the
material used upon it. is just as good and
firm and strong as when put in place.
Twelve hundred miles of this gigantic
work built on the rugged, craggy noun
tain tops, vaulting over gorges, spanning
wide streams, netting the river archWays
with huge hardbars of copper, with double
gates, with swinging doors and bars set
thick with iron armOr-a wonder IN the
world before which the old time classic
seven wonders, all gone now save the
great pyramid, were toys. The great pyr,-
amid has 81, 1000, 900 cubic feet, the great
wall $3.50, 900, 900 cubic feet. An engineer
in Stewards party here some years ago
gave it as his opinion that the cost OF this
wall, figuring labor at the same rate,
would more than equal that of all the lOO,-
900 miles of railroad in the United States.
The material it contains would build a
wall six feet high and two feet thick right
straight around the globe. Yet this was
done in only twenty years without a trace
of debt or bond. Its the greatest individ-
| ual labor the world has ever known.
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THE ARCTIC II

TO many there is always something pc
culiarly attractive about the Polar regions,
and what has been written with regard to
explorations in that unknown zone, and
to their difficulties aid dangers, has only
served to increase the interest and inten-
sify the fascination of readers of narratives
concerning the search for the North Pole.
This land of the midnight sun was a few
years ago brought prominently before the
world by the dispute in reference to
WrangelL Land, the search orthe Jeanette,
and the discoveries made by Lieutenant
Schwatka, the daring young officer OF the
Third United States cavalry, who found
the remains of the famous and ill-fated
Franklin expedition. In his book on the
travels and explorations which led up to
the discoveries, Mr.. Glider, the second in
command of Lieutenant Schwatka's eXpe-
dition, writes as follows on the midnight
sun:
1--WE were beginning to get used to the
phenomena of the Arctic, not the least
among which is the ''midnight SUM-" 1t
is difficult for one who has not witnessed
it himself to understand this p~ortent. The
idea of the long Arctic night seems to
be much more generally comprehended.
Nearly all writer's upon the subject, Wheth.
er those who have themselves experienced
it's effects, or those whose knowledge is
derived from study, dwell with great
force on the terribly depressing effect upon
the physical organization of natives of the
median zones of the long Arctic night
whenever they are brought within its
influence. Though much less has been
written or said concerning the intermina.
BILE day, its effects are almost as deleteri-
Gus upon the stranger as the prolonged
night. Indeed, to the sojourner in high
ATTITUDES, the day is much more noticeable,
for at no point yet visited by man is the
darkness throughout the winter day the
total darkness of night, whereas the mid:
night SUM- makes the night like monday
The long twilight in the north, where
the suns apparent path round the earth
varies so little: in latitude at its upper and
lower examinations, takes some of the
edge off the prolonged night at the highest
latitude ever attained by the Arctic ex-
plorer, but there is nothing to relieve the
''long weary day" of its full power upon
the system. There, in the north, in the
spring, the sun never sets. There is no
morning and no night. 1t is n continu'
Gus day for months. At first 1t seems
very difficult to understand this strange
thing in nature !; one never knows when
to rest; the world seems to be entirely
wrong, and man grows nervou and anX-
ious. Sleep is driven from his weary eye
lids, his appetite fails, and all the disa'
greeable results of p%rotracted vigils are
apparent. But gradually he becomes used
to this state of affairs, devises means to
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A STRAIGHT BRIBE.-"Boy are you ac-
quainted around here ?" he asked of a lad
on Michigan avenue.
"Yes, sir"
81 want to find the Civilized Cornice
works." =
"Never hear of 'em."
"But its an old concern, and l was told
to come to this corner. There's a big sign
on the roof"
ooh. YOU mean Galvanized Cornice
works. It's right around that corner"
"Bub, did 1 say civilized"
ayes, SIR" ,
"And the proper word is galvanized"
"That's it."
"Here-come here. Here's a dime for
you, and you just keep mum about what
has passed. I'm going to run for super
visor this fall on the strength of being a
self made man, who got his education by
the light of a corn cob candle, and l don't
want the internal opposition to get hold
o fthe fact that the candle went out on me
too on."-DeroH Free Press.
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r.. s. JEFFERYS.
THE CYCLONE EXTINGUISHER.

T1RzAH, S. c., March 10, 1887.
MEssRs. JEFFERYs & HoKE, Gents:
TIME Cyclone Spark E~xtinguisher put on my
engine a few months ago is giving entire
satisfaction. Before it was put on, my GIN
house several times caught fire from sparks, so
I had to quit running while the wind was blow
ing in the direction of the Clubhouse. Now I
can gin and saw with perfect safety, no matter
which way the wind blows. Haven'tseen a live
spark from the engine since I have been using 1t.
or burn out. Will last as long as the engine. I
think it a great invention, and wouldn't take
double the cost of mine if it was so I couldn't
get another one. I think you ought to reduce
the present high rate ofinsurance on gin-houses
where these extinguishers are used on the en-
zines. or. at least, recommend such to the com
ppanies you represent. because I see no risk
Whatever from the engine.
Very respectfully,
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A NAMELESS CASE.

My case has been n very curious one for about ,hir
teen years. At intervals Of about one week I would
be attacked with spells Of severe and most ~excrucia-
ting pain, always commencing in the region Of my
kidneys. The pain would then 60 upwards and affect
my body and head, and seemed to penetrate my very
~eye-balls, creating the most intense suffering, lasting
about eight hours each spell.
Iresorted 10 all kinds of medicine without benefit.
Several doctors treated my case, but none gave relief.
l finally used B. B. B. Us an experiment, and to my
utter establishment all pain and suffering vanished
after using three doses. To the present time | have
used three bottles, and not a pain has ever returned.
I do not know what was the matter, neither could
my physician name the complaint. The B. B. b.
acted finely and powerfully upon my kidneys; my
appetite has been splendid and my constitution built
up rapidly. r. THOMAS,
Constitution, Ga, May 6, 1856.
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HER FAITH WAS SoLID.-The train
side-tracked between Verbena and Mont
geometry for another to pass, n some one
got off and went I'VE to where an old ne
gro woman was fishing in a mud hole. 1t
was that, and no more or less. In building
the railroad a lot of dirt had been removed,
and the recent rains had filled it with
brick-colored water. Everybody laughed
at the idea of her fishing in that spot, and
the Colonel approached her and said:
"Wha are you fishing for, auntie"
"Fur fish, sah," she replied as she gave
the pole a jerk. =
aBut you don't expect to find fish in
there, do you?
"Doan' I! Deed, but I does! Doan'
de Lawd say dar, shall be fish in de waters
an birds in de air, an dye 'spose lze
gwine back On de Lawd at de age OF 67"'
"But have you caught any"
"No, sah."
"Have you had a bite ?"
"No, sab, but is I gwine to lay dat up
agin de Lawd? No, sab! He says dar
shall be fish, an if lie SIGH a fule dat l
can't cotch en- OATS my own fault. Git
away, white man, till I see what'sa crawl
in at de hook "-Detroit Free Press.
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PROHIBITION In MAINE.

AS one the arguments used by the ANU
Prohibitionists in Anderson county is the
failure of the prohibition law in Maine,
Mr.. Columbus Wardlaw, a member of the
Anderson Bar, wrote to the mayor of Port
land and asked him for a statement OF the
effects of the law, in that city. The fol-
lowing letter received in reply, is publish
ished in the Anderson Journal:
PORTLAND, Me, July l, 1887.
MY Dear Sir :-Many inquiries are con-
tinually reaching me from different points
relative to the efficacy of the prohibition
law in Maine in suppressing intemper-
ance, and more especially, as to the truth
of the statements, circulated in your W
and other States, that there are more than
$50 open saloons in the city of Portland.
Considering the extent and frequency
of such inquiries I have deemed it a saw
ing of time to write a general letter an
swering substantially these questions.
First, I would give it, emphatically, as
my opinion, that the prohibitory law IN
Maine does have the effect to largely sup
press intemperance among the people, by
restricting the sale of intoxicants within
narrow limits in many places, and, IN
most of the towns in Maine preventing
their sale altogether.
Second. It is not true that there are $50
open saloons in Portland. On the contra
ry there are no open bars or saloons in the
city of Portland not, to my knowledge,
a single place where liquor is advertised
for sale. While ii may be possible to pro-
cure liquor for drinking purposes, yet It's
sale is driven into dark corners, and it
must be carried on clandestinely. With
the greatest difficulty and risk under these
circumstances the youth are not exposedt Il
temptation and are permitted to grow up
without the formation of drinking habits.
The number of arrests for drunkenness
average three or four daily, which is a
small number considering that we are a
large seaport city, with vessels arriving
daily from ports where liquor is easily OBJ
tainable. Besides, our custom is to arrest
any parties found in a drunken condition.,
while, in most cities, arrests are not made
for drunkenness unless accompanied with
disturbance.
The sentiment of our community is in
favor of prohibition and a faithful enforce
ment of the law, and would not long toll
crate an administration which would al
low the law to be held in contempt.
It must not be overlooked that one i'm
portant advantage of the prohibitory law
is it's educating influence upon the people.
Under it, whoever sells intoxicating
liquors is branded as a criminal the bust
ness of liquor selling is thereby made obi
Gus, thus educating the public mind against
the sale and use of intoxicants.
With such a law upon the statute book,
the power is given any community to
abate a liquor nuisance within its midst,
and protect the member of society against
a glaring evil.
Believing that prohibition will promote
the happiness and prosperity Of any State.
yours, CHAs. J. CHAPMAN, Mayor.
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UNIMPEACHED INTEGRITY.

/ am IS. Broke down twelve years ago, and have
not been able to work since. Have lost proper action
of my hips and legs. For five years s%crofulous sores
have appeared on my scalp and nose, and at the same
time my eyesIght began to fail, and for three years
have been comparatively blind. Have been ueatea
by eminent physicians Of different schools without
a cure. have taken five bottles of B. B. b. made
ut Atlanta, Ga.), and all scrofulous sores are granu-
ally healing. about my eyes mas as
appeared and there Is some improvement IN my VISION
Am very much benefited and relieved and begin 10
feel like a boy agaln-feel good. My strength ana
activity are returning In my legs and hips. The BE.
B. acts vigorously upon my kidneys, and the great
quantity of matter that has been forced out through
the skin Is utterly incredible, often so offensive IN
odor as to produce nausea. l refer to all business
men Of LAGRANGE, Ga. 7. PROPhlLL.
LAGRANGE, Ga, January l3, 1856.
All who desire full information about the cause
and cure of Blood Poisons, Scrofula and Scronlious
Swellings, Ulcers, Sores, Rheumatism, Kidney JON
plants, Cntarrh, etc., can secure n copy OF our q
page illustrated Book Of Wonders, filled with the
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Wholesale dealers of B. B. B., Yorkville, Sc
August 81 ~
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@-A young physician of small practice
noticed a man buying cucumbers, and ne
followed him home and waited outside for
develoments: Four hours later the front
door opened, and the man came hastily
down the steps. "Want a doctor?" gasp
ed the im%pecunious physician. NO" re-
sponded the man; 81 am going around to
the grocer's for some cucumbers."
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A DEPARTURE.-In closing an article
on the passing away of a beloved and time
honored citizen, the Yoke6erg WhirtaDind
says: "We do not think that we exagger-
ate when we say that the funeral was very
sad" It seems that lively funerals have
been the rule in that COMMUNICATIONS
snD IruULer.
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Anmurpns department.
NEAT BIT OF FLATTERY,

He appeared suddenly at the door of a
fashionable boarding house the other day,
wearing a bland smile and a seersucker
suit.
The ladies were all grouped on the We
randa in breakfast costumes.
Ladies'" he, said, dofing his hat, "a
gentleman who boards here asked me to
bring this basket of lilies and present it
with his compliments to the prettiest lady
here"
There was a moments pause and then a
maiden who had seen many summers
asked sharply:
swell, why don't you present it,"
The man made a deprecatory bow.
"How can /, miss? He forgot to give
me any address, and I couldn't pick out
one from 80 many"
ladies at once.
every distwangey, with a light mus
tache, OF, femme see, was it dark? klna
of disremember the color. But that's
what he said-the prettiest LADY,"
"Could it have been MI. -? DO you
suppose he ordered them for, that horrld
Mfss"-
"More likely for the Widow"-
sit must have been Capt.
81 hate to take them back" said the
man refectively. eff the lady he meant
will pick herself out, I'll give her the
lilies,n and he twirled one fragrant bud
in his hand.
~ suppose you couldn't sell us any OF
them,n murmured o sweet old thing VINO
knew she was the 'one' meant. i,
81 could sell to you altogether, but not
to one; that wouldn't be fair. You see
the gentleman will know I couldn't afford
to lose the sale of 'em. Six for five cents,
ladies. If I can't find the right one faint
my fault, an I never see s'many pretty
ladies afore in my life"
"I'll take q bunch J"
"And l."
The basket was soon emptied. At din
ner every lady wore a lily in her hand or
at her belt and Mr. - and Capt
were smiled upon by turns by the whole
posse of female boarders to their great
surprise.
"Good heavens! what have we done to
deserve it," asked the gentlemen OF each
other, as they were thanked for their
good intentions.
The ladies do not know yet that they
were the victims of a commercial ruse on
the part of the lily vender. -Detroa free
Press.
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pa-Little Tommy Ray had a quarrel
with his sister, and would not kiss and be
friends. His aunt said, 80 don't you re-
member what papa read at family prayers
this morning, that we were to forgive
seventy times seven?" EYES," replied
Tommy "but I tickerlarLy noticed it was
to your brother, not sister,"
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UNDERGROUND DRAINS.

Water has a tendency to seek the lowest
level and to do so by the most direct route
available. Rain falling on a hill of corn,
midway between two rows of tile. does
not 20, as some imagine, in q diagonal d.
%rection, to the tile.
The tile, explains the Prairie Farmer,
has no attraction for the water, which
obeys the law of gravitation, and goes
downward. Suppose that the sol! held
water at the surface, previous to laying
tiles, and that the tiles are sixty feet apart.
The water filling the soil above and be-
tween the rows of tile, will gradually seep
toward the tiles, enter at openings between
them, and flow off. The excess of water
will thus flow off to the level Of the water
in the tiles, except that there will be a
rise of the water line toward the centre
between the drains. Rain water, melted
snow, etc., which enters this drained soil
~percolates directly downward, and raises
the level of the water line. The water es-
capes into the tiles by flowing in a hori-
zontal direction. That nearest the tiles
flows in just as water runs over the edge
of a dish.
There is a general impression that water
enters the tiles from the top, while in fact
it enters mainly from the sides and bottom,
since only that which enters the soil i'm
mediately over the tiles goes downward
into the tiles, the rest all flowing in later
ally. 1t is claimed that where the tile is
entirely submerged, most of the water en-
tiers from below the middle. When only
a moderate rain falls, the water level will
he only slightly raised, and the volume of
water flowing through the tiles only slight
~ increased. But when a heavy rainfall
continues for some days, the porous sub
soil above the tiles becomes filled to a
higher point, and the volume of water in
creases. If the tiles are small in proper
ton to the water they must carry away,
the water fills up above them, and when
running full they cannot keep the level
down. In many cases where the tiles are
small the porous earth is filled entirely to
the surface, and several days are required
after the rain ceases to allow the drains to
reduce it. Three or four feet of porous
earth will hold a great amount of water,
and drink up a heavy rain like a sponge,
giving it out sidewise into the drains at
its leisure.